I know I have seen a couple people that have put the bedliner material on their swim platforms... I am wanting to replace my teak swim platform with a custom platform and was thinking about maybe using 3/4'' plywood and coating it in a couple coats of herculiner or a similar project. Anybody have any pics of these type of platforms...

Here are my reasons for wanting a custom platform

1) My current teak cuts in big time to the surf wave so new custom one would be designed to not do this

2) Want the new platform to be white as I think it will look better with the boat

3) I hate oiling teak... and the previous owner of mine did not take care of it so some boards are starting to warp

4) Its a pain to get my tie down straps between current platform and the hull to tie down the boat for trailering and since my boat is always trailered this would be awesome

5) I think the teak is somewhat slick at times but im clumsy i guess so I would improve the traction of the new platform

6) In my mind the new platform is goin to look so much better.... haha

Well Ok here is my other thing.. If I am going to do the plywood route I would like to have a pad on top and hopefully one with the Tige logo.... So I don't know if I want to do the line x/rhino thing as its rough surface will be horrible for the pad adhesion.... Idk what do you guys think? I need some opinions here

I have an MC fiberglass platform W/rubber pad. I have seen this done on another MC with Line X right up to the rubber pad, so you have the protection of the Line X to stop the board scratchs and the pad for a non slip surface. His was black though, so the match was great. Mine is navy blue, tougher to match, but I have heard they have a clear. I sure am tired of buffing out the scratchs and thinking Teak would be easier!

Whenever someone mentions this it makes me cringe. I see you are making up your own platform with plywood which is just fine. I just can't imagine covering a beautiful, expensive piece of teak with bedliner.

I still don't understand why people think teak is that much work. I spent an hour with a cleaner, brightener and brush on my dad's yacht platform and it looks beautiful. I haven't put oil on but that doesn't take much time at all. To compare his swim platform is at least double the size of a ski boat platform. It is also a piece of teak from 1987 that spent most of it's life in the salt water in San Diego.

In my case, it's not the fact that it is too much trouble. It is for two reasons, one, the previous owner didn't take care of it and I had to sand A LOT of material away to get it looking new. Now, after half a season on wakeboarding there are lots of scratches that will need to be sanded out again. Also, due to it not being taken care of, there are a could boards that have split and made the platform weaker. I do not want to risk it breaking. The other reason is I would like the platform be deeper from the boat and also not have any holes in it to let spray from my FAE up into the boat. It would be MAJOR $$$ to build a new one with teak so I am exploring other options.

Here is another vote for NO on lining swim platform!! The previous owner did it so I don't know what product he used, but here is what I thought of it:

Felt like sandpaper. So everytime you got out of the water you were rubbing up against 80 grit sandpaper! That's after I attempted to sand it down!
It didn't provide that great of traction. Once it was wet, it was just as slippery as teak.
Scrapped the crap out of my boards when I laid them on it.
Trashed my young daughter's swimming suits.

It took me 30 minutes with a power sander and some teak oil a couple times a year to make that teak look brand new.

I get made fun of by my friends because of my teak platform. They call it my "coffee table" because it looks like a piece of furniture...lol.
All I have done is put teak oil on it from day 1 (I am the original owner) and each day when I put the boat away it's the last thing I do. I probably use a half
to 3/4 of a bottle of teak oil a season. Don't know if that's a lot or not but she looks pretty sweet to me!

Here's how I handled my teak platform. It was a pain to oil it all the time and I wanted it to always look like fine furniture...

Lowe's or HD carry Olympic Brand deck stain. The color I chose was Natural. hit it with some 200 grit, then maybe a 400 grit and a 1000 grit... Get the wood how you want it, then throw on 2 coats and your deck will look glorious all season long. Now you have to restain each winter before you store it away, but once a year is a ton better than twice a month with the teak oil...